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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Brain surgeons, long burdened with the onerous reputation of being among the smartest people in the world, are expressing relief that the Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson is shattering that stereotype once and for all.
In interviews with brain surgeons across the country, the doctors revealed the enormous pressure they felt to live up to their professions inflated renown for intelligence before Carson entered the race.
When people found out I was a brain surgeon they would always assume I was some kind of a genius, said Harland Dorrinson, a neurosurgeon in Toledo, Ohio. Now they are beginning to understand that you can know a lot about brain surgery and virtually nothing about anything else.
Dorrinson said that acquaintances used to view him as a source of wisdom on a wide range of subjects, but added, Ever since Ben Carson said that prisons make people gay, thats really fallen off.
MORE HERE: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ben-carson-shattering-stereotype-about-brain-surgeons-being-smart
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)Just to confound all our memes.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Of course they had that idiot NASA scientist who disputes Global Warming.......
demwing
(16,916 posts)So all that "a fool and his money" stuff is clearly questionable.
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(3,967 posts)SwissTony
(2,560 posts)Mitchell and Webb...who else?